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Director Raoul Peck on making "I Am Not Your Negro"

In 1979, the author James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his idea for a new book called 'Remember This House'. It would tell the story of America through the lives and successive assassinations of his three friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Baldwin died before he could ever write the book, but an unfinished manuscript and other notes survived. A new film "I Am Not Your Negro" uses these texts as a structure to explore the legacy of the civil rights movement and the state of race relations in America today. Director Raoul Peck tells how he made the film.

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4 minutes